Hi, we're A Great Big World and you're watching Young Hollywood.

We just got off the plane and driving here to the Fountain Blue, your faces were on a billboard.

We saw that yesterday too. That's a definitely a big first for us.

Is it weird?

Yeah. Yeah. I wanted to like curl up and like Don't look at me. Also her picture is kind of in a lot of places in the hotel right now.

are you bragging right now?

No, no, no. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. It's funny when we I feel like when we walk by them everyone around is totally I totally feel insecure when I walk by my big shirt. Yeah. You go like this to people go oh my god. Imagine walking by a big picture of yourself. Oh I feel like hello.

Your album just dropped your first album.

Yeah.

You've described it like how?

Chad likes to say it's like giving birth.

Describe labor for me.

Well, you know, it's it's a it's a lot of months of uh

nine months?

nine months or more than nine months. I feel like it was more than we had years of the birth. What do you call that? Conception. No, I don't know. Pregnancy. This baby's been growing for a long time. A long time. He's he's way overdue.

He?

I'd say it's she.

Describe the album because I've heard a little bit of it and it's more I would say more up tempo than say something.

I mean, most of our music is upbeat and positive and say something just happened organically and we were not expecting that at all with that song. We were actually fighting our label and we're like, we're going to radio. On one side, we don't think it's like a full representation of who we are. And then the other side of it is that song to me is hopeful now and it's not sad anymore and I'm in a different place than it was when I wrote it, so.

Well, it's funny cuz when I first heard it, I thought it was hopeful but then people I guess take like what you're saying is depending on what place in your life you are.

Yeah. I feel like say something came from like the most honest place we've ever written, but I also feel like that's that's how it ties into the whole album because I feel like we really strive to be as honest as possible with ourselves and with each other. We're like brothers. We're as honest with each other as we are to ourselves. So I feel like we come at songwriting as like one person and I feel like one perspective and I think that that's why this works.

Are you brutally honest with each other?

Brutally. Yeah. To each other. Yeah. We don't care. I don't care if I offend him because I don't think anything I say would offend him. We offend each other all the time. Yeah.

So let's talk more about that song. So I know you released it first on your own. It had been out there in the world for a little bit and then we recorded it for the A Great Big World album. And then So You Think You Can Dance emailed us and wanted to use it for a dance. And we had just finished recording it so we sent it to them. Put it up on iTunes and then it just reacted and people connected to the song and Christina was one of the people that connected to it and literally a week after the show, we got a call from our manager. Christina wrote an email that got forwarded to us. It was written like a poem about the song. And then a week later, we were in the studio in L. A. It happened so fast but we didn't have time to process We still don't have time to process any of this.

So how do you feel like she brought sort of a fresh take to the song or how did it bring a fresh take to the song?

I like to say that she she brought the female perspective when Ian had the male perspective. We we didn't know what to expect when we went into the studio. We had an idea of what she could do. It was giving her a verse and letting her do her thing vocally on it. And she's like, I don't want to do that. I just want to add my voice as a texture. So she's like, just press record and and we sat there in in the booth and we listened and the first time she sang over the first line of the song, it was just we had like a moment. It was just like It was it was literally a moment it was like yeah, it was like like I got the wind knocked out of me. Yeah. And I mean just looking up and seeing her through the glass singing the song and it was a very it was a very surreal.

Say something I'm giving up on you. I'm sorry that I couldn't get to you. Anywhere I would have followed you. Say something, I'm giving up on you.

What are your sort of pre-show rituals besides talking to Young Hollywood?

We're really we're really boring. So my pre-show ritual is like drinking tea and sitting in sitting in a dark place. In a dark, yeah. And what do we do? That's that's kind of what I like to do. It's just like talk to no one and just close my eyes. Yeah. I feel like my body conserves before a show and it just goes into this mode where like I'm getting ready to just It's like we're hibernating. Yeah. And all sudden it's like

Never heard a performance described like that before.

Yeah. I don't think it's a natural thing. We we love doing it and we feel like we need to do this and I don't know, it's I think it's better what we do is better than like puking before shows or or like getting like sick. I don't know. I I know like there are certain I think it was Mick Jagger who I heard that he pukes every time he right before he goes on stage and I'm I'm really thankful that I don't. He has a better option.

Thank you guys. Congratulations on the new album.

Thank you.

We'll be looking for you on billboards everywhere.